This week we are exploring the story of Mirza, a femtech meets fintech company on a mission to close the gender pay gap. Mirza is co-founded by a female team, Siran & Mel.

On the show today we talk to our first female founder of the series, Marie Farmer. Marie founded the award winning app Mini Mealtimes after worrying about her son's health and nutrition. And realising the only options for advice were either patronising, expensive or generic. She has been featured in numerous publications including The MailOnline, The BBC, The Metro and the Evening Standard.

Kicking off the first series are the team from Class-ify. This series focuses on the Health and Wellness industry and we showcase founders who are currently raising capital.

Welcome to Pitch Deck the Podcast! I created this podcast after realising there’s a great deal we don’t learn about a founder or founding team simply from a powerpoint pitch deck and ultimately investors invest in people before they invest in an idea, so why not learn more about the people behind the ideas? Ask questions, invest in our guest's businesses or want to be part of a future series? Just email me on: sara@pitchdeckpodcast.com